I had the pleasure of taking a course from McGhee Productivity Solutions called "Managing Objectives, Actions, & Plans Using Microsoft Outlook."
This class was one of the best classes I have ever taken.
Seriously.
I gotta admit, I was skeptical...

I'm speaking at the Microsoft Meltdown 2005 conference at the end of the month. The topic is tips and tricks for using the Visual Studio Profiler. Since this is a game developer audience, I'm going to try to tailor this talk to your needs and go in to...

I recently joined Developer Division as a Program Manager. One of my goals is to improve the customer experience around Visual Studio Community Technology Previews. This blog will contain links to articles about Visual Studio CTPs and background information...

There's a tool called msiinv.exe which will list out all the products installed on your machine that was installed using the windows installer.
Huy (one of our Setup testers) has it available at:
http://www.huydao.net/setup/msiinv.zip
If you...

Just saw a question on the newsgroups about turning on MSI verbose logging.
For those interested, set this registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer] "Debug"=dword:00000007 "Logging"="voicewarmup"

Have you ever pondered about some really amazing feature of the biological world? The eye? The ear? The sense of touch? Bird flight? These are features evolved very gradually, over many generations. The net result was something that seems incredibly impressive...

In my last post I expressed considerable optimism that we would get Enterprise Library June 2005 released in the month that bears the same name. The good news is that we got the code and installer built, tested and signed off with a day to spare. However...

We have another blogger from the VS Setup team :)
Our QA lead Pete Giffin just launched his:
http://blogs.msdn.com/pgiffin
I think its empty right now but Pete promised to put something there by the end of the day :)

Opera 8 for Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone is available for download from http://www.opera.com/products/mobile .
Apparently, there's also a Windows Mobile Pocket PC version being worked on right now.
- Mike

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